AT&T to Combat Verizon iPhone With New Messaging Plans?

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Posted January 19, 2011 at 1:46pm by iClarified

AT&T is reportedly going to introduce new text messaging plans on January 23rd, according to GearLive.

The leaked screenshot below, obtained from Best Buy, shows that AT&T will discontinue its current $5/200 and $15/1500 plans and introduce two news ones.

The first is a new $10 per month for 1000 text messages (with each additional costing $.10,) while the second is the $20 unlimited text plan ($30 for family plans.).

AT&T to Combat Verizon iPhone With New Messaging Plans?

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PReaper - January 20, 2011 at 5:39am

Damn AT&T is expensive.. I have 3000 Text Messages included (and 3000 minutes) in my $13/month contract here in Sweden.. Well sure it's only for when I message/call someone using the same operator as me (which pretty much all of my friends do) but I only pay $0.10 per SMS/minute to every one else.. Crappy part is I only have 1 GB of data/month included (at 6 Mbit/sec) but I can buy additional data; 200 MB - $4 1 GB - $10 5 GB - $19 Now I know why so many don't like AT&T..

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Joe - January 19, 2011 at 11:06pm

Wow! Ex-AT&T employee that you are generally afraid of yet still say HI on the street to "just in case"! Chill out - geesh. No one is forcing any contract on you or plan. Jump the boat and hit up Sprint!

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Jay - January 19, 2011 at 3:38pm

I dont see why Carriers dont just make 1 messaging plan and it's unlimited. $20 for Unlimited is still horrible. They should consider dropping that to say $10-15 range. Then maybe it will help some people stay with AT&T. As for me.... Off to Verizon I go (They give better government discounts).

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Nick - January 19, 2011 at 3:58pm

I'll be moving to Verizon once there's a 4G iPhone on their network, until then it's not worth it.

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Jay - January 20, 2011 at 1:50am

I dont see why people are getting so hyped up about this "4G"..... true 4G wont be around until 2020 if we are lucky. This 4G now is pretty much a marketing campaign. Gizmodo did a great article about it a few months ago.

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Casey - January 19, 2011 at 3:21pm

Sooo... what i'm reading... if we have the $5/200 message (being I don't text at all) we will be paying more now? How is the combating Verizon? Just curious... or am I reading this wrong?

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Mr.D - January 19, 2011 at 8:39pm

If you already have the $5/200 text plan, you're grandfathered in. You won't have to pay more.

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Crunch - January 20, 2011 at 12:41am

Make sure not to forget to tell whatever rep you go through the next time you upgrade your line that you want to KEEP your $5/200 feature!

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Nick - January 19, 2011 at 2:43pm

If they really wanted to combat the Verizon iPhone they would bring back the unlimited data plan. It's really a slap in AT&T's face when Verizon has unlimited data plans for the iPhone and they don't.

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Frank - January 19, 2011 at 2:31pm

Useless!!!

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Nick - January 19, 2011 at 2:02pm

How is this combating the Verizon iPhone? All they did was make a $10 plan instead of the $15 plan, which is actually screwing over those who had the $15 plane. If they want to combat it, lower the unlimited plan price. $20 a month is a ridiculous amount for unlimited text messaging, it should be $10, especially since it costs them nothing anymore for people to send text messages.

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Shaun - January 19, 2011 at 2:15pm

Typical ATT, The false economy here is that text's over the alloted plan amount go from the current rate of .05 to 10 cents.

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iceblu121 - January 19, 2011 at 2:17pm

i like this idea even unlimited for $15 would be somthing to combat verizon with just copying verizons plans at the same price dont do anything for att except show fear maybe bring back unlimited data for those other people who want it .

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